A question about Walt

[phillybeth]

Free masons are elusive, and some would claim that this is the whole point. Oh, they say on their website to contact your local lodge for membership, but just try and get someone to return you phone call. Ha! My poor hubby's had his hopes dashed more than once by this.

You have to know a Mason to join a lodge, and it used to be that they could not actively solict members- you had to ask to join. I know that the Grand Lodge in PA no longer has the 'must ask' rule (and they also changed the age from 21 to 18). Each state has its own Grand Lodge that sets the rules though, so this may or may not be the case where you are. Your husband's best bet is to ask a known Mason how to join.
And remember the officers of the Lodge are not paid (usually) and most have full-time jobs as well as their Masonic duties. It makes for a busy but rewarding life. Tell your husband to be persistant.

 

[isyne4u]

This is what my friend emailed to me to describe the book:

Oh, in DaVinci Code the idea behind the book is that the Church has buried the fact that Christ and Mary Magdalen were a couple and that Mary Magdalen had a child by him. And, there is still a line of descendants from this child. And, that originally, in order for a religion to be complete there had to be a male AND female counterpart. And, this knowledge was kept alive by the Knights of the Templar and the FreeMasons, inspite of the fact that they were persecuted in the Inquistion and pretty much destroyed. The Masons now are believed to be a revival of these beliefs.

In effect, the Femine aspects of life/nature/people has been suppressed by man.

This is her take on things if it makes this question make any more sense.
tara